Month: May 2016

A reminder for everyone having small children. During summer time, in a very short time the car turns into a sauna with temperatures between 30 and up to 85 degrees Celsius. Small children´s brain swell until no blood can enter it. They can get severe brain damage, kidney failure and die in worst case. Please think about it before leaving the child in the car…

Yesterday there was a very interesting documentary about the birth of Islam and how it affected the world the coming centuries. It was interesting to see how important science was to the society and how a group of persistent people can destroy a way of thinking throwing nations in development stagnation. What I missed in the movies was that they didn´t explain why negative things happened or how connected politics from western world was involved. In any case it was still an nice documentary (in German though) that I recommend to see.

Ettlingen is a small picturesque town next to Karlsruhe that we visited this beautiful day. Our little princess didn´t mind the town and the buildings too much but it was the fountain that was the fun part of the trip 😀

Looking for THE best mattress for Ada I got reminded of that one shouldn´t look for the same sort of mattress for children as for grown ups. I wanted a nice soft mattress for her soft little body not thinking of that it maybe does not fit to her body.
So I found some things one should think of when buying a mattress for a baby that I think cannot be repeated enough.
It should be relatively hard because the children still have straight spine. A soft mattress can destroy their backs.
A baby can also sink in with its face in a soft mattress which is dangerous.
Another thing that is especially important for babies is that the circulations of air is good. If not, the level of CO2 increases near babies head and it is lately believed that it might cause sudden infant death syndrome.
Third thing that seem to be important is to keep an eye on the chemicals that are in the material.
In the end we decided for an ecological mattress for Ada feeling that we do want her to be as less exposed to chemicals as possible.Trazeci najbolji madrac za Adu to me podjestilo da ne treba gledati madrace za djecu kao sto ih gledamo za sebe. Ja sam htjela jedan fin mekan madrac za njezino mekano tijelo, medjutim to je skroz pogresno razmisljanje koje moze unistiti njezinu kicmu.
Tako sam pronasla par stvari koje je vrijedno ponavljati da se ne zaborave.
Madrac treba biti dosta tvrd jer djeca imaju jos uvijek ravnu (a ne S-formiranu) kicmu. Isto tako ako je madrac premekan dijete moze da glavom utone u madrac sto moze biti opasno za dijete.
Druga vazna stvar je da je dobra cirkulacija vazduha u madracu ili na povrsini. Ako nije, onda moze CO2 nivo blizu bebine glave da se povisi sto se u zadnje vrijeme cak misli dovodi do sindroma iznenadne smrti odojcad.
Treca stvar koja je dosta bitna je pratiti nivo kemikalija koje su u materijalu od madraca.
Na kraju smo izabrali ekoloski madrac jer smo osjecali da hocemo da se Ada eksponira sto manje kemikalijama sto moguce.

Kindorado is one of the biggest playgrounds for children in south Germany, so I decided to take Ada there to check it out and play a little bit. It was nice but I had imagined it bigger. Ada loved it, but we were a little late so she couldn´t enjoy it as long as she wanted.

Yesterday I took a break of a couple of hours, ( from looking for our passports- can´t find them anywhere :/), and went to the Karlsruhe zoo with my family and a couple of friends and their children. I loved the zoo. It is cute and lies in the middle of the city somehow. There is also plenty of place just to sit on the grass if feeling for it (great when it is above 25 degrees). There are also a very nice playgrounds for the children. But most important was that they had the ice bear.. that is not sleeping.

This time I made a mistake with my stocks.I had them on a common stock account instead of the ISK (investment saving account). So I nicely payed 30% taxes on the dividends I got, instead of paying no taxes.
I guess the only way to learn is the hard way.
For the next round of dividends I had some of my stocks transferred to the ISK account and hope next time will be better. My goal of having higher yield than the year before has come true (honestly, I hadn´t really much). Next goal is to get the double for this year. Let´s see if that works. This money I invested ( I hope it is an investment) by buying a couple of Mycronic stocks for me and 2 stocks of H&M for Ada.
My dream and one of my long term goals is to have such dividends yearly that it could at least partly pay off some of my bigger bills.
Imagine having so much dividends that you can actually pay the rent of it…luxury 😀
Ovaj put sam napravila gresku sa svojim dionicama. Drzala sam ih na pogresnom racunu tako da umjesto da izbjegnem porez skroz, morala sam platiti 30% poreza na dividende. Sta ces, nema drugacije nego po dzepu.
Za slijedecu rundu dividendi sam zato prebacila neke dionice na ISK (Investment stednji) racun i tako se nadam da cu slijedeci put biti bolje. Ove godine sam uspijela ciljem da poboljsam dividendu od prosle godine (doduse nije bas neka dividenda bila :)), a cilj za iducu godinu je da uduplam dividendu koju sam imala od 2015.
Od prosle dividende sam kupila nekoliko Mycronic dionica i dvije dionice od H&M za Adu.
San a i jedan od mojih dugorocni ciljeva je da imam takvu dividendu godisnju da mogu dio svojih vecih racuna otplacivati sa tim novcem.
Zamislite koji je to luksuz kad bi dio kirije mogao biti placen od dividende 🙂

It would maybe fit better in a huge yacht than in a living room but you have to admit it is very cool. This Fletcher Capstan Table consists of 5000 pieces and is put together by hand. Even though the company does not show any prices the rumor goes that the tables cost around 50 000 dollar.